Adidas Is Winning the Marathon Super Shoe Arms Race
Hawi Feysa and Amos Kipruto won Chicago in the Adios Pro Evo 3 at a race Nike sponsors, and Adidas now has eight of this year’s 12 Major wins and 20 of the 36 podium places.
Brands and Gear News
The 2026 Boston Half Field Is Led by a Two-Time Defending Champion
Fentaye Belayneh won the last two editions by a combined three seconds and ran 1:04:49 in Houston in January. In the men’s race, Habtom Samuel takes on 2023 champion Abel Kipchumba.
Race Coverage
Alexis Races Her First 5k | Her Taper Week Race Plan
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A Year Before Chicago, Vinny Mauri Was Applying for Jobs
Fresh out of college and barely running last fall, the Ohioan has since run the fastest marathon debut by an American and led the U.S. men through 30K in Chicago, and he thinks the people closest to him saw it coming.
Elite Runners
A Record-Strength El Niño Could Make 2027 a Hard Year for Marathon PRs
Forecasters expect next year to be the warmest the planet has ever measured, and decades of race data show how much a few extra degrees cost marathoners at every level of the field.
Jessy Carveth
Vinny Mauri Had Not Picked His Chicago Race Shoes Days Before the Race
He was still weighing two ASICS models and had not settled what would go in his bottles, and once the race started he left the pacers behind and ran it on feel.
Elite Runners
Everything You Need to Know About the Big’s Backyard Ultra World Team Championship
On Oct. 17, 1,110 runners will start the same hourly 4.167-mile loop at once around the world, and every yard each of them finishes counts toward a national total that Belgium set at 1,147 in 2024.
Trail and Ultras
Patrick Clancy Runs the Chicago Marathon in Memory of His Three Children
Clancy ran 3:35:29 on Sunday, 24 minutes faster than his Boston debut, five weeks after a judge declared a mistrial in his ex-wife’s murder trial.
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